Film
Young Muslims Speak Out About Life Under Constant Surveillance in the UK
In his installation film The Destructors, Imran Peretta looks at the trauma inflicted by counterterrorism laws.
War on Terror
Art
The International Spy Museum Seen Through the Eyes of a Human Rights Expert
"This feels like a loss," said Andrea Prasow of Human Rights Watch while touring the museum, flagging several errors in how curators have presented the history of torture and interrogation.
Art
Politics Camouflaged as Ornamental Abstraction
NEW PALTZ, NEW YORK — I recently saw the group show ostensibly about ornamentation and abstraction at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz, and came away thinking I’d just seen a show about politics, hegemony, and the War on Terror.
Art
Leon Golub's Never-ending Fight Against the War Machine
LONDON — The conversation of war has dwindled.
Interview
An Artist Draws the Women of the War on Terror
Artist Sofia Niazi is a Londoner, born and raised. But in a post-9/11 world, Niazi has been troubled by how her city and her country have changed, by how people in her community are being treated.
Art
Soldiers' Bedrooms Become Makeshift Memorials
Tomorrow, New Yorkers will flock to the newly opened National September 11 Memorial & Museum in lower Manhattan to remember the nearly 3,000 lives that were lost on that day.
News
Two Street Artists and Artist Collective Labeled Terrorists in Egypt
Finnish street artist Sampsa and Egyptian street artist Ganzeer are being labeled as "terrorists" by various Egyptian media outlets, but why?